BRITISH EGG INFORMATION SERVICE

http://www.britegg.co.uk/

For over thirty years, health organisations have warned that people should limit the number of eggs they eat to only three week . However, this limit has now been lifted! As Professor Bruce Griffin, Professor of Nutritional Metabolism from the University of Surrey, says "The UK public do not need to be limiting the number of eggs they eat" Fantastic news! Eggs all round! Let's party! These eggs certainly seem pleased by the news.

I'm sure that following this great news, you are, like me, now planning an all egg diet. If so, you'd probably want some ideas for recipes. The British Egg Information Service has lots of recipes. They've also got a Youtube channel.
This is how to boil an egg:



That's fairly straightforward. I think most people agree on how to boil an egg, though I suppose there's a bit of debate over whether you should put the egg in cold water and bring to the boil or boil the water first and then add the egg. That's nothing compared with the number of different ways to poach an egg. This is the British Egg Information Service's method. She uses the rolling boil/egg in a cup method. Gordon Ramsay has a similar method but uses a whisk to "gain some momentum in the water". He also plunges his cooked egg into iced water. Isn't it a bit gross the way he holds the poached egg at the end? I keep thinking he's going to squeeze it and spray egg yolk all over his craggy, antique oak face. It seems wrong holding a poached egg like that. Rob Manuel from B3TA tested various egg poaching methods and having tried the clingfilm method, I agree with his findings.

But what if you're just too lazy to boil or poach an egg and don't really fancy Bowie-in-Berlin style raw eggs? Thankfully, the British Egg Products Association are on hand.

Egg products are used as ingredients by food manufacturers and caterers to save time, money and hassle, without neglecting quality or food safety responsibilities. There are an incredible amount of egg products available on the market today, if you can think of a way for egg to be sold then it probably exists. Eggs are available in liquid, frozen and dried forms. Also available are "value added" egg products such as boiled eggs, scotch eggs, fried eggs and omelettes and ready-to-use scrambled eggs and sandwich fillings.

Ready made fried eggs! Brilliant!

Unfortunately, egg products seem to be mainly aimed at food manufacturers and caterers rather than the end consumer and so aren't available in supermarkets. Although Sainsburys sell packs of shelled hard boiled eggs for just £1.99 for four. That's handy, because I'm sure there must have been lots of times in the past when you've been out and about, doing the shopping or going to meet friends or whatever and you fancied eating four hard boiled eggs, but couldn't so you just had to starve. Well, no longer! And you can wash it all down with a lovely carton of egg white from Eggnation.

I wrote all that without making a single egg pun.